"I don't think many would go to the aggregation of checking Hansard."


True enough, unfortunately. That's how fake news works. I suspect, for example, Ben would not have appeared in this thread with our little diversion into how to hack sheets of paper if the Daily Mail's claim Bradshaw said anything about Brexit in that speech had been questioned.

As for confirming all media sources are distorted: of course. Get any two people to watch any event and give their interpretations and there will be differences, and in some court cases freedom or imprisonment rests on that difference. Media is the same: each has their own way of looking at events.

Which is why critically thinking about everything you read is (a) vital (b) damned hard work.